It’s a vision that would make the University of Iowa one of the top solar energy using universities in the country.
“All over campus, on top of the dorms, even small little car charging points where students can plug their electric bikes into,” said Tim Dwight, who formed the Iowa Solar and Small Wind Energy Trade Association.
Dwight is now part of an effort to install more than 12 hundred kilowatts of solar electric power on campus by 2013.
A new proposal set to go before lawmakers next session calls for more than three million dollars of state funds to the UI for the project.
“You look at all the energy resources we have today and what we’ve been traditionally powering our way of life on, and things need to change,” Dwight said.